Industrial Era
After purchasing the rights to the Bessemer process, this company setup in Pittsburgh to produce large amounts of steel and became the first billon dollar company.
What is the Carnegie Steel Company?
This was built to connect the east to the west. One result has been a continual increase in western populations.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Writers and journalists who worked to expose problems within society created from the industrial era/Gilded Age.
What is a Muckraker?
This war ended up being a war of American Imperialism as the US acquired new territories from Spain.
What is the Spanish-American war?
“This American business magnate, founder of Standard Oil, was the world’s first billionaire.”
Who is John Rockefeller?
This famous inventor was later bought out of his own light company which now operates as GE (general electric). We have him to think for night shift work.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This was killed off (to near extinction) by the American gov't to hinder the Native American way of life.
What is the buffalo/bison?
Founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr, this Chicago settlement house became a hub for social reform and a beacon for immigrants
What is Hull House?
These are the territories acquired by the United States after the Spanish-American War.
What is the Philippines, Guam, & Puerto Rico?
This Danish-American journalist and photographer’s 1890 book ‘How the Other Half Lives’ brought attention to the living conditions of the poor in New York City tenements.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This is the first location where most immigrants from Europe would visit upon arrival to America.
What is Ellis Island?
These immigrant groups were instrumental in the construction and completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is Chinese and Irish immigrants?
This movement, initiated to protect natural resources, gained significant momentum with the establishment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872, America’s first national park.
What is the conservation movement?
This artificial waterway in Panama connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. It was completed by the US in 1914 and is a conduit for maritime trade.”
What is the Panama Canal?
He developed an electric telegraph system and co-created the code that revolutionized long-distance communication.
Who is Samuel Morse?
The goal of this group was to improve the working conditions of Laborers in America. They were led by Samuel Gompers.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
This is one result of Indian resistance to American expansion into the west. This bloody event marked the end of such resistance.
What is the massacre at Wounded Knee?
This book was written by Upton Sinclair that exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry. It led to the Meat Inspection Act, and the creation of the Food & Drug Administration.
What is The Jungle?
In 1959, these two non-contiguous U.S. states were admitted to the Union, completing the current 50-state flag. The territories were originally acquired by the US in the age of Imperialism.
What is Alaska and Hawaii?
This influential American labor leader served as the first president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and advocated for workers’ rights.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
When one company controls the entire production process of a good from the extraction of raw materials to the manufacturing of finished goods.
What is vertical integration?
This is the location where the Transcontinental Railroad was completed. A golden spike was used here to finish the railroad and serves as a symbolic fulfilment of Manifest Destiny.
What is Promontory Point, Utah?
This amendment shifted the power to elect U.S. Senators from state legislatures to the people, allowing direct elections.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This early 20th-century addition to the Monroe Doctrine asserted the U.S. right to intervene in Latin America to curb ‘chronic wrongdoing’ and was named after the president who declared it.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This investigative journalist’s ‘History of’ this petroleum company helped end its monopolistic ways.
Who is Ida Tarbell?